Homemade Chocolate Ice Cream (For Breakfast!)

While you can go back to eating Kale come Monday, tomorrow, July 19th, is National Ice Cream Day.  You can start the celebration first thing, at breakfast. That’s because my homemade chocolate ice cream recipe has no refined sugar and no dairy either. It’s also loaded with antioxidants, fiber and phytonutrients. So yes, it’s basically a superfood chocolate ice cream recipe. Pretty cool, huh?

A Word About Where to Buy the Homemade Chocolate Ice Cream Superfood Ingredients

All of the ingredients for the superfood homemade chocolate ice cream recipe (the cacao powder, coconut milk, etc.) can be purchased at any well-stocked natural foods store or online at Amazon. The Coconut Manna by Nutiva is a relatively new ingredient I have been using lately and it is absolutely perfect for making delicious homemade dairy-free ice creams. Since it is made purely of dried coconut flesh, it has the sumptuous full-fat “mouth feel” of dairy cream that is hard to replicate with non-dairy ingredients. Although many dairy-free homemade ice cream recipes call for coconut oil, I think the Coconut Manna is a much better ingredient. 

The Very Best Ice Cream Maker for Less than $60

Of course you will also need an ice cream maker to make ice cream. But investing in a high quality, high-performance ice cream maker is not as pricey as you might think. As an ice cream aficionado, I have tried umpteen different ice cream makers over the years and hands down the very best one is the one that is the smallest, cheapest and least complicated. For less than what I spent on my coffee maker, the Cuisinart® Classic White Frozen Yogurt, Ice Cream and Sorbet Maker  is absolutely perfect for making homemade ice cream in quart-sized portions. I also picked up the nifty quart-sized Tovolo Ice Cream Storage Containers from Amazon for less than $10. I didn’t really think the containers would be necessary and bought them more for fun, but unless you are going to eat the entire quart of ice cream in one day, you will definitely want to get a container to lock in freshness and prevent freezer burn.

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What If You Just Want To Buy Your Ice Cream?

Unfortunately, I have not yet discovered a store-bought ice cream that is so pure and so nutritious that I feel good enough about giving to my son for breakfast. However, I definitely don’t always have time to make homemade ice cream. Click HERE to learn which brand of ice cream I like to buy and how I “health it up” a notch.

Do You Have a Favorite Homemade (& Healthy!) Ice Cream Recipe to Share?

If you have a delicious and nutritious homemade ice cream recipe to share we would love to know about it! Please leave a comment below and tell us all about it.